336, Lot: 157. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Sanatrukes(?). Circa AD 116. AR Drachm (20mm, 3.77 g, 12h). Ekbatana mint. Diademed bust left, wearing tiara decorated with star / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 81.1 (Parthamaspates); Shore 423 (Parthamaspates). Near EF, toned.

Ex G. Hirsch 181 (22 February 1994), lot 425.

Since the offering of the Bellaria Collection in Triton IX, CNG's Parthian attributions have been made in accordance with the research of G.R.F. Assar, who had been working with the late Dr. Sellwood on an update to the standard reference for the coinage.